I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.

If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears